Mastering the american accent
Cambridge.University.Press.The.American.Puritan.Elegy.A.Literary.and.Cultural.Study.Jun.2000.pdf
... years probably made these poems less alien to me than they seemed to other readers, at least if the commentary surrounding them was any indication. Second, these poems, for all their deviation from ... recasting the dead as primitive versions of ourselves and thereby begging the question regarding the past’s relevance to the present. While such models can make the past more appeal...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
... grips with the material. They are deer in the headlights. Paraphrasing for someone like me helps them learn that they can figure it out, because I won’t let them off the hook till they hazard ... physics, let us say. Then, when they have to do it, they can only sit there in agony looking at the pieces of paper—agonizing but not progressing, because they have so little hope that they ne...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
... part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an- swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends. There’s ... kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to- gether, if this theory...
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